Two weeks later and all I have to show for it are these stupid holes...
HUGE huge thank you to Jared and Liz who came by to help with the holes. Jared was the other 'man' on the two 'man' auger. Liz was superb moral support and helped find the tape measure every time I lost it. And should anyone dig up the quick-crete tubes, they'll find her lovely handi-work on there as well. Which, by the way, those tubes are 4 feet long. The auger wouldn't even dig holes that deep. So sometime I'll be digging the holes just a little deeper with a shovel. They have to be 42 inches deep so that when the ground freezes in the winter, it doesn't raise the footings up out of the ground.
So the deck is coming along very sloooowly. Got the permit finally, which is nice. Except that it has even more rules in it that I'm supposed to be following. I really wish I never told them I was building the deck. Everything would have been fine. And MUCH easier to build. But alas, you try to do the right thing....
Taking tomorrow off. I have to bring the auger (gas powered hole digger) back to Ft. Collins and I'll be stopping by a few breweries with the guys while I'm down there. Doing a few tours of New Belgium brewery, etc. Teaching a tactics class sunday morning, then I guess it will be back to work on the deck sunday afternoon.
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